Some 12 percent of
minors held in government custody are sexually
abused, and in some facilities the rate reaches a
stunning one in three children, says a report
released Thursday by the Bureau of Justice
Statistics.

The first-ever
National Survey of Youth in Custody found that
no less than 10 percent of the 26,550 juveniles
being held in detention facilities in the US are
abused by staff at the facility, while another 2.6
percent report abuse at the hands of other inmates.

Among the facilities
studied were six identified to have rates of sexual
abuse as high as three in 10.
According to the Associated Press, those six
facilities are Pendleton Juvenile Correctional
Facility in Indiana; Corsicana Residential Treatment
Center in Texas; Backbone Mountain Youth Center in
Swanton, Maryland; Samarkand Youth Development
Center in Eagle Springs, North Carolina.; Cresson
Secure Treatment Unit in Pennsylvania; and the
Culpeper Juvenile Correctional Center, Long Term, in
Mitchells, Virginia.

“The widespread sexual
abuse of children in juvenile facilities shows that
public officials either aren’t paying attention or
can’t be bothered to do the right thing,”
said Jamie Fellner, senior counsel for Human
Rights Watch. “The high rates of victimization are
powerful testimony to the failure of governments to
safeguard the boys and girls in their care.”

The study was mandated
by a 2003 law, the National Prison Rape Elimination
Act, which also created the National Prison Rape
Elimination Commission. Human Rights Watch notes
that six months ago the commission set out
“comprehensive, effective standards for the
prevention, detection, and punishment of prison
rape,” but the Justice Department has yet to act on
those recommendations.

“Every day Attorney
General Eric Holder fails to promulgate national
prison rape elimination standards is another day in
which kids and adults are being abused behind bars,”
Fellner said. “The attorney general already has on
his desk proposed standards that reflect the best
thinking and effective practices to end this
widespread scourge. There is no need to reinvent the
wheel or to delay moving forward.”

The survey found that
gay youth were at higher risk than heterosexual
youth, with one in five reporting abuse at the hands
of a staffer or fellow inmate. Males were more
likely to report being abused than females (10.8
percent to 4.7 percent). And 95 percent of those
abused by staff reported that the abuser was female.
But that number may be influenced by the fact that
91 percent of youth in custody are male.

Although advocates
said the level of abuse wasn’t surprising, the
prevalence of sexual abuse by staff,
particularly female workers, was shocking, said
Linda McFarlane, deputy executive director of
Just Detention International, which fights to
end sexual abuse of those who are detained.

“Many of these are
already the most vulnerable and traumatized
youth from all of our communities and they’re
placed for custody because they’re considered to
be a danger,” she said. “If sexually abused in
those very institutions that are supposed to
help them prepare for life in the community,
then it’s just an incredible travesty.”

The Associated Press also
notes that sex abuse by staffers was higher in
state-run facilities than in privately-run or
municipal detention centers, and smaller facilities
appear to have lower abuse rates than larger ones.

The study investigated
a 12-month period, and was carried out from June,
2008, to April, 2009.

“If they don’t cooperate they
are going to see long sentences,” a federal law enforcement source said.

True Pundit - NOVEMBER 3, 2016

New York Police Department detectives and prosecutors
working an alleged underage sexting case against former Congressman Anthony
Weiner have turned over a newly-found laptop he shared with wife Huma Abedin
to the FBI with enough evidence “to put Hillary (Clinton) and her crew away
for life,” NYPD sources told True Pundit.

NYPD sources said Clinton’s “crew” also included
several unnamed yet implicated members of Congress in addition to her aides
and insiders.

“It involves Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, and Bill
Clinton as well as Jeffrey Epstein,” DC insider Doug Hagmann said on The
Alex Jones Show Wednesday. “According to my source, these files exist – he
did not touch these files so he doesn’t know what’s in them, but the fact
that they exist on this computer suggest some sort of overlap here.”

“It involves the Saudis, very big money and interests
in the Middle East, and it involves Hillary, Huma, and to a much lesser
extent Anthony Weiner.”

The NYPD seized the computer from Weiner during a
search warrant and detectives discovered a trove of over 500,000 emails to
and from Hillary Clinton, Abedin and other insiders during her tenure as
secretary of state. The content of those emails sparked the FBI to reopen
its defunct email investigation into Clinton on Friday.

But new revelations on the contents of that laptop,
according to law enforcement sources, implicate the Democratic presidential
candidate, her subordinates, and even select elected officials in far more
alleged serious crimes than mishandling classified and top secret emails,
sources said. NYPD sources said these new emails include evidence linking
Clinton herself and associates to:

Money laundering

Child exploitation

Sex crimes with minors (children)

Perjury

Pay to play through Clinton Foundation

Obstruction of justice

Other felony crimes

NYPD detectives and a NYPD Chief, the department’s
highest rank under Commissioner, said openly that if the FBI and Justice
Department fail to garner timely indictments against Clinton and co-
conspirators, NYPD will go public with the damaging emails now in the hands
of FBI Director James Comey and many FBI field offices.

Foster Care System Traps Children into Vicious
Cycle of Sex Abuse Children rescued from sex abuse are placed right back into
it.

Lee Ann McAdoo | Infowars.com | August 1, 2013

The FBI raid that rescued 105 sexually exploited
children from a sex trafficking ring last weekend has highlighted the
vulnerability of foster children. Sixty percent of runaways who are
victims of sex trafficking had been in the custody of child protective
services. Many times when children are rescued from sex traffickers they
are put right back into the foster care system to repeat the same vicious
cycle. Victims may even recruit other children into the very abuse they had
just left. With the “child protectors” snatching even more children into the
system to get more federal funding, there has become a serious shortage of
good foster parents to handle the surplus of children, which means the bar
has been set really low for people who can qualify to foster.

Those who are paid to protect children couldn’t care less about their safety
so long as the feds come through with the big bucks. Sex traffickers prey on
helpless children who feel abandoned by their families and lost in a system
of providers that don’t bother to follow up on reports of neglect. These are
the type of children that are easily groomed for child sex slavery and
prostitution. The demand for child sex trafficking is even greater now that
sex-trafficking and pedophilia have moved out of isolation and into a
worldwide internet-based community of people who share images and
techniques. According to the International Center For Missing And Exploited
Children (ICMEC), of the millions of pornographic images on the internet,
10% are of infants and toddlers, while 76% are of pre-pubescent children.
Let that sink in.

Almost 90% of all porn on the internet is of exploited children. That’s why
the Global Center For Women and Justice has said that “human trafficking is
far more lucrative than the sale of drugs or arms because the children
involved are considered reusable assets.” The consumers are not who you
would suspect, according to the ICMEC, “They are doctors, lawyers, business
executives, teachers, coaches and everyone in between. They don’t look
evil.” Indeed, you can still get a government contracted job even if you’re
a convicted pimp.

(Reuters) -
A private equity fund run by Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) has agreed to
sell its stake in the media company that runs a sex trafficking forum back
to company's management, a spokeswoman said on Sunday.

GS Capital Partners III on Friday signed a deal to sell its 16 percent stake
in Village Voice Media, which owns the website, called Backpage.com.

The fund began negotiations with Village Voice Media in March, after
deciding in 2010 that it had grown "uncomfortable with the direction of the
company," and Goldman's inability to influence its operations, said Andrea
Raphael, a Goldman Sachs spokeswoman.

The sale was first reported in a Nicholas Kristof column in The New York
Times on Saturday. The fund's investment was also the subject of a Kristof
column last week.

Raphael said the fund invested $30 million in the Village Voice in 2000. The
investment was converted into a 16 percent minority stake when the Village
Voice merged with New Times Inc in 2006.

She declined to disclose the sales price, but said the fund lost a "vast
majority" of its investment.

Village Voice Media was not immediately available for a comment.

Online prostitution advertising generated at least $3.1 million in revenue
in February, on five U.S. websites, an increase of 9.8 percent from a year
earlier, according to interactive media and classified advertising
consultant AIM Group. Nearly 80 percent of the revenue was attributed to
Backpage.com, AIM said in a report published March 22.

Village Voice Media owns the alternative newspaper The Village Voice, which
was founded in 1955.

Over the years, the newspaper has published groundbreaking investigations
and received three Pulitzer Prices. Its back pages, in contrast, have for
decades been the bastion of escort service advertising.

*Backpage.com also posts lists for hundreds of other classified advertising
throughout the country.

A blind trust in the name of Ann Romney, wife of Republican U.S.
presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, was an investor in a fund run by
Goldman Sachs Group Inc that had invested in a media company which
critics say facilitates sex trafficking. While there is no suggestion
the Romney's knew about the investment, the disclosure highlights the
difficulty for politicians and their families when they invest in blind
trusts that are supposed to protect them from conflicts of interest and
ethical